198 Fables of Grandfather Krylov

...In all respects our most popular poet...(A. S. Pushkin)...His fables are by no means for children. He would be grossly mistaken who would call him a fabulist in the same sense as La Fontaine, Dmitriev, Khemnitser and, finally, Izmailov. His parables are the property of the people and constitute the book of the wisdom of the people themselves.(N. V. Gogol)In Russian literature there was no more ...